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Warwick Burke is presenting the Anzac Day Dawn Ceremony of Remembrance from Wellington's Cenotaph from 5.45am Friday. You can listen live here.
Photographer Laurence Aberhart will discuss the inspiration behind his new book Anzac, which documents war memorials from New Zealand and Australia, from 8.10am.
Professor Kevin Clements discusses how growing up in the household of a pacifist and conscientious objector has influenced his life from 9.10am.
Writer Dianne Bardsley discusses the vital role women played on home soil while the men were on the front line from 10.10am.
Music critic and travel writer Graham Reid takes us on a musical journey during war time in Vietnam, and talks about jumping on a plane to Saigon in his civvies in 1969, from 11.10am.
You'll be able to stream these and other interviews after they air here.
The Wireless’ Jamie Tahana visited the Petone Working Men’s Club earlier this week to hear the stories of war vets. In his story – complemented by video shot by John Lake – he said he couldn’t imagine himself ever replicating these men’s sacrifice:
What struck me about all these men was their humility. Nobody admitted to thinking about themselves and their sacrifice on Anzac Day, there were always many other people to think about first.
They were my age, some even younger, when they decided to jump aboard a ship (or a plane in latter instances) and sail off to war in what then was a much larger and more mysterious world. That’s a decision and sacrifice I can never envisage myself having to make.
ANZAC Day - Innes McNeil from THE WIRELESS NZ on Vimeo.